The San Jose Sharks are looking to erase an eight game losing streak tonight against the Toronto Maple Leafs. San Jose hasn’t won a game since Jan. 27, more than a month ago. This is the final stop on the Sharks’ trip through Canada and it winds up with perhaps the most formidable of all the opponents. Luckily for the Sharks, the Leafs were taken to overtime in Pittsburgh last night while the Sharks were already in Toronto, waiting for them. It’s the best the Sharks can hope for at this point.
Despite fears to the contrary, it sounds like Macklin Celebrini will play tonight. He was banged up yesterday, but says he’s ready to play. Henry Thrun won’t play, though; he was placed on injured reserve. The team called Jimmy Schuldt to take Thrun’s place.
The Maple Leafs are banged up with players like Jani Hakanpaa, Calle Jarnkrok, Max Pacioretty and Chris Tanev injured, but the big guns will be playing. Mitch Marner leads the team with 75 points, most of them are assists. It’s William Nylander leading the team with 35 goals. Four players on the Maple Leafs have 20 or more goals this season. In addition to Nylander, there’s John Tavares, Matthew Knies and Auston Matthews.
In the net, expect to see Anthony Stolarz. Stolarz is 13-5-2 this season with a 2.21 goals against average and .927 save percentage.
This is the first meeting this season with the Maple Leafs. They’ll play again on March 27 in San Jose.
San Jose Sharks lines tonight
Even though Schuldt was called up from the Barracuda, don’t expect to see him playing tonight. It will be Jack Thompson getting the call instead.
Forwards
William Eklund – Macklin Celebrini – Tyler Toffoli
Fabian Zetterlund – Alex Wennberg – Will Smith
Collin Graf – Nico Sturm – Luke Kunin
Klim Kostin – Ty Dellandrea – Barclay Goodrow
Defense
Jake Walman – Timothy Liljegren
Mario Ferraro – Shakir Mukhamadullin
Marc-Edouard Vlasic – Jack Thompson
Goaltenders
Alexandar Georgiev
Vitek Vanecek
Toronto Maple Leafs lines vs. San Jose Sharks
So, here’s how NHL.com expects the Maple Leafs to line up tonight.
Forwards
Matthew Knies — Auston Matthews — Mitch Marner
Pontus Holmberg — John Tavares — William Nylander
Bobby McMann — Max Domi — Nicholas Robertson
Connor Dewar — David Kampf — Ryan Reaves
Defense
Morgan Rielly — Oliver Ekman-Larsson
Jake McCabe — Philippe Myers
Simon Benoit — Conor Timmins
Goaltenders
Anthony Stolarz
Joseph Woll
How to watch San Jose Sharks at Toronto Maple Leafs March 3, 3025
Sharks fans can watch the game on NBC Sports California or listen on the Sharks Audio Network.
Maple Leafs fans will have to live stream the game on Prime Video.
The puck drops at 4:30 p.m. PT/7:30 p.m. ET at Scotiabank Arena.
